Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... you’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you'll fell bad about it later."
Vinci looked at him. "That's your defiant speech?"
"Get used to it," said Marcus. "There's a lot more useless heroics where that came from.